I say take that a step further, and become a lab rat. Let them test stuff on you. You're helping create breakthroughs in modern medicine. And sure you're twitchy now, your finger and toenails fell out, and half your face is numb and makes you drool a little, but you have to turn that those lemons into lemonade.

The thing that worries me though is that I've just completed my 9th Star Wars collection liquidation for a fellow collector's X-wife. I hear the story over and over how boxes and boxes of stuff just keep arriving at the house all addressed to him and no where to put them. Pretty soon simple things like telephone service and electricity get turned off. She has no idea what is going on. She finds out that they have a huge credit card bill and no money in the bank. This goes on for a while and the family get separated. She comes to me to help sell his Star Wars collection. We typically get about 45-55% of the retail price of the stuff. The older stuff like EP1 is given away to charity. She is trying to rebuild her and her children's life and he is living with some friends or his parents. Another family destroyed. Of course, there were other reasons for the divorse but being burried in stormtroopers with no lights pushes things in that direction really well.

That is sad, but I have to ask - how did she come to acquire custody of (and the accompanying rights to sell) HIS collection? Was this part of some kind of court-ordered settlement? Did he sign off on that idea? Or was this more of a punitive action on her part?

My gf wouldn't want any of it, even if she did think she'd have gotten something out of it, had we been married and got a divorce. She told me she'd hate to even look at it, haha.

That's the key I think. You have to drive that batshit crazy about toys so they basically don't want it if they leave ya! She'd rather have the cars and house I guess. Pffftt! I'll build my 4 walls and roof one PVC POS at a time, thank you! The ultimate display... I live in it! I'll even use the POTF2 Fleet Trooper for sewage plumbing.

Well, TRU is already at 9.99 and I've resigned to picking up new figures when I see them there. I've come a long way since finding the AT-AT Commander and Cloud Car Pilot for the first time and passing.

If Walmart and Target follow suit and add $1 to their vintage fig prices, then I might as well continue my case buying habits at EE.